diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d8030b39bd0b47315d86c741555106a27e368821..dc8cc90686002d809638b4d79f586172360ab3a1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Version 2.0 release candidate 4
+  - change the OS list to not require locks; this helps with big
+    clusters
+  - fix gnt-cluster verify and gnt-cluster verify-disks when the volume
+    group is broken
+  - β€œgnt-instance info”, without any arguments, doesn't run for all
+    instances anymore; either pass β€˜--all’ or pass the desired
+    instances; this helps against mistakes on big clusters where listing
+    the information for all instances takes a long time
+  - miscellaneous doc and man pages fixes
+
 Version 2.0 release candidate 3
   - Change the internal locking model of some gnt-node commands, in
     order to reduce contention (and blocking of master daemon) when
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 955b860fa6971231d8f92b1103434b2e9f997148..75e3531b4fbfa576aaf3de9f285d4537281125f6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [0])
 m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc3])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~rc4])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,